Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-03-04
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THE REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS.
After Thursday night, Vice President
J. Taylor ElIyson presided to the close,
the President, Samuel b. Woods, having
| returned to Charlottesville to take part IN
the great revival going On there. The
first conversation of Friday mornings
session was held on
NEW PLANS-WHAT HAVE BEEN TRIED
AND WITH WHAT SUCCESS"
/ conducted by Mr.. G. A. Lcklider. He
said that in his trip through the South
he had seen Associations which had been
wrecked merely by clinging to the old
plans of the fathers. Associations must
have new plans, and keep up with the
progress of the times. Lynchburg had
tried this new plan-to get the press to
give so much space free to notices of the
work of the Association. 1t was good
one; he believed in printers ink. Anoth-
or plan tried there was for the Associa-
ton to give the Ladies Auxiliary re-
ceptiOn, the members to don white aprons
and walt on the ladies. That had created
good deal of interest on the part of
the ladies.
H. M. Clarke of Richmond, said one of
the new plans OF his Association was to
form an ''Outing Club" and give a littls
excursion each Saturday afternoon to the
battle fields and the coal mines. Another
was to district the city among 4S members
and have them carry invitations person.
ally to persons to attend the Association
receptions and hall. Both had worked
we'll
REPORTS OF ASSOCIATIONS.
The reading of reports from Associa-
tions showed that at Randolph Macon
the monthly college paper had depart
ment for the Y. M. G. A; at Hampden.
Sidney College reading room; at the
University of Virginia room prayer meet
ings and mission baud; Norfolk was
booming the gymnasium; Greenv1lle
had made her pubic meetings every week
instead OF once month; Staunton had
tried two receptions given by the Ladies
Auxiliary, the last one decided success;
Washington & Lee had organized weekly
prayer meeting besides its monthly one.
Alexandria was flying high since the
State Secretary went there-had contract.
ed for building and had Ladies' Auxi-
liary, 100 strong, who were waiting to
furnish the building when completed;
Luray had a Ladies' Auxiliary; Charlottes-
vile was giving public entertainments
ST. ValeaGine's day and the 22i of Febru-
airy; Culpeper gave Martha Washington
reception, Feb. 221.
STATISTICS OF ASSOCIATIONS.
Alexandria has $50 members and 100 in
the Ladies' Auxiliary; Charlottesville has
12S active members, SS Associate, and IL
subscribers to the reading room, Ladies
Auxiliary of 4S, publishes small paper
and can pay its debts. 1t also has Juve-
nile Branch numbering 35 mem bers; Cul
pepper has 80 active and As Associate men,
bers, their Ladies' Auxiliary gives them
great financial help; Greenvllle has 81 ac-
tive and q Associate. 1t conducts Sum-
day school in the summer months; Luray
has membership of 149 of whom 4S were
added in the past year, it is going to put
up $4,000 building; Lynchburg has a
membership of 542, has new building
which cost $4,000, a gymnasium and
classes for arithmetic, penmanship and
bookkeeping; Lexington has a member
ship of 1925 and has just been given hall
OF its own with library of 1000 volumes
by the Franklin Society; Norfolk and
Portsmouth Association has a membership
of 900. has building fund of 500, 900 and
has just contracted for building to cost
$31 500. Its Ladies' Auxiliary has about
$4,000 ready for furnishing the building,
1t has gymnasium-One of the largest in
the Countrywide other being the Brook
Ign, N. Y; Petersburg has a membership
Of 240, a library of 1000 volumes, and has
free lectures and cottage prayer meetings;
Richmond has a membership of 700,
library of 5000 volumes, and its building
nearly completed at the cost of $4,000;
Roanoke has 100 members of whom IS are
Associate; Staunton has 40 members,
net increase of SO during the year.
WHAT CAN THE ASSOCIATION DO FOR
BoYs?"
This topic was treated by J. McLain
Brown of Charlottesville. He said the.
Association could Improve the mind.
muscle, and spirituality of the boy. It is
no longer held true of youth that at that
period of life man must ''sow his wild
oats.'' That is no longer the fashion and
sowing wild oats in youth is now held as
discredtable as sowing them in age. The
presence of the bright, healthy, earnest
young men in this Association gives a
singing rebuke to that old adage as false
as it is old. The speaker gave the methods
used in his Association at Charlottesville
to reach the boys, giving them their own
Association, officers and reading room,
prominence in their own meetings, &C.
He said parents were often reached
through their boys.
Fears were expressed by other delegates
that boys would get away with the Asso-
Citations if given as much privilege as Mr..
Blown had mentioned.
INCOMPLETE REPORTS.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss called attention to
the fact that the reports from Associations
read in the morning failed to give the very
facts that people wanted to know about.
He had observed the same things in the
International report. This matter was
discussed by Messrs. H. D. Peck, M. b.
Williams of Ga. and A +. Robertson.
THE GYMNASIUM.
Under the physical development of our
work" a paper written by Wyndham Rob-
ertson, Manager of the Lynchburg Associ-